TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cornaglia, Francesca
AU  - Feldman, Naomi E.
AU  - Leigh, Andrew
        TI  - Crime and Mental Wellbeing
        PY  - 2014/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8014
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8014
        AB  - We provide empirical evidence of crime's impact on the mental wellbeing of both victims and non-victims. We differentiate between the direct impact to victims and the indirect impact to society due to the fear of crime. The results show a decrease in mental wellbeing after violent crime victimization and that the violent crime rate has a negative impact on mental wellbeing of non-victims. Property crime victimization and property crime rates show no such comparable impact. Finally, we estimate that society-wide compensation due to increasing the crime rate by one victim is about 80 times more than the direct impact on the victim.
        KW  - neighbourhood effects
KW  - mental wellbeing
KW  - crime
KW  - non-victims
        ER  -